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...speech, “The Possibility for Peace One Year After the Geneva Accord,” Levy noted that while the Geneva initiative came under heavy fire from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the negative publicity was what eventually garnered the international and domestic support that helped to launch the non-combatant reforms that were finalized in December...
...disappointed that he didn’t talk more about the Geneva Accord,” said Danielle R. Sassoon ’08, who is also a member of Harvard Students for Israel. “He was also very critical of the fact that the Bush administration had done nothing in the past four years to engage in a peace process, but I think that Arafat is not a legitimate peace partner and that now under Abbas there is a chance that peace can progress...
...peace campaigners and in 1977 issued a declaration in favor of a two-state solution, a break from P.L.O. doctrine, which called for the eradication of the Jewish state. Abbas' ties with Israeli officials made him a key Palestinian architect of the secret negotiations that produced the Oslo peace accord in 1993. Even Sharon, who denounced that deal, saw in Abbas a man he could do business with. Seven years ago, Sharon, who was then Infrastructure Minister, invited Abbas to Sycamores Farm, his ranch in the Negev desert. Abbas was the first P.L.O. official Sharon ever...
...Such deals are the heart of the "cap and trade" system for greenhouse-gas emissions that forms a pillar of the Kyoto accord on climate change, which goes into effect this week. Under the scheme, the total emissions of developed nations are limited, or "capped" at a fixed level, and each nation assigns a number of CO2 allowances to its major carbon-emitting sectors; companies that have unused allowances (as a result, for example, of antipollution improvements) may sell their excess allowances to companies that need them. Theoretically, the wisdom of the marketplace will lower the cost of reducing harmful...
...agreement—which comes on the heels of a deal the city reached with MIT last month—means that Harvard will pay the city about $2.4 million in 2006 to compensate for its tax-exempt property. The accord has provisions for regular increases that could bring the annual payment to nearly $10 million by the end of the 50-year agreement...